Does your local paper have a "Home" section?
Might be worth shooting the writer an email. This was in our paper today. As always, in relating our conversation, there are a couple of sentences interpreted in a way that made me wince, but overall pretty good. Now let's see if it gets the phone ringing.
$400? to do a boundary survey? Double that and you might make a profit, might. Around here anyway
I was going through an old job file from 1987 the other day. We surveyed a simple platted lot for $450.
Sadly, other surveyors provide the same services today for about the same price after almost 25 years!
I completely agree. I try to be on the leading edge around here price-wise too.
$400 puts me on-site (up to an acre) for around 2-3 hours and is sufficient time to handle 97% of the work I do.
There are still guys out there doing the exact same thing for $250, and knocking out 4-5 a day. Go figure.
JB, pretty good story. Congrats, that is some great free advertising.
And for those who think this is low, it is not. I remember when I moved from that area back in 2004, we were charging around $300 for lots. In this economy, $400 is pretty good for upstate SC/ Charlotte area.
The real estate section of The Birmingham News recently ran a story on surveying lots that they originally printed around 1980 but was not updaed. They quoted a surveyor's price for lot surveys at $150. The surveyor was not contacted about the reprint.